Category Archives: Teched2012

Cyber Security Defenses – what works today

Attending this session just for Salvador Ortega,  though I know that Sal will never read this blog post, even after I told him about it last week, sent him a link, and will tell him about it next Monday when … Continue reading

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The Four Pillars of Identity: A solution for online success

Trends and Challenges: explosive data growth – Massive amounts of data that is being collected.  Need to secure access to this data proliferation of devices – mulitple devices per user.  don’t always have management policies for those devices.  personal devices.  … Continue reading

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Managing and Extending ADFS

Improvements and Enhancements in ADFS [ Interesting session.  Very technical.  The presenter went into details of how to configure and customize the ADFS experience. He showed how to setup config files and tricks and "hacks" to customize the user experience.  … Continue reading

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Defense Against the Dark Ages: Your Old web apps are trying to kill you

Windows IE Upgrades or Security Reviews identify various different security issues and challenges. High Risk: Insisting on keeping old versions of Java around., Carrying old IE setting forward and finally, Relying on ActiveX not intended for web applications Java – … Continue reading

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Overview of Managing Apps, Services & VM in Windows Azure

New announcements for Azure: VMs – hosted servers in windows and linux.  flexible workload support, and support for virtual private networks Cloud servies: Build infintely scalable apps, rich multi-tier architectures and automated app management.  websites where you don’t worry about … Continue reading

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MS Office 365 for Education

Agenda: what it means to have Office 365 for education and what is the upgrade/migration plan for live@edu? Office 365 core: Office, Lync, Sharepoint, Exchange Everyone upgraded from live@edu moves into an Exchange plan 1 by default. other options cost.  … Continue reading

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Cloudy Weather – How secure is the cloud?

Things to consider about cloud security: Confidentiality – is the data safe in the cloud?  Can MS access it?  Can your competitors access your data? Can the FBI see it?  Integrity – can you verify that the data hasn’t changed?  … Continue reading

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Answers Picture Auth and AD

Just got done talking to a Microsoft AD specialist.  I asked him about what I had seen this morning with the authentication on the tablet using picture auth.  My question was whether they were storing finger strokes or any other … Continue reading

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Tuesday Keynote – Antoine LeBlonde

Today – desktop discussions.  Windows 8 Just sold over 600 million licenses of Windows 7.  based fundamentally on windows 95 designs.  In the past, mostly we used desktops.  today, laptops outnumber desktops.  future – going to be tablets.  future is … Continue reading

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Antimalware Smackdown

What is the biggest security threat you currently face? Used to be software vulnerabilities that we had to worry about.  Now we are more worried about end users habbits that will lead to vulnerabilities.  The human element is what is … Continue reading

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